China blocks VPN access in new online censorship crackdown

[Jonathan Fairfield]

China blocks VPN access in new online censorship crackdown

BEIJING (AP) — Tech specialists and companies are reporting that China is blocking VPN services that let users skirt online censorship of popular websites such as Google and Facebook.

The virtual private network provider Golden Frog wrote on its blog that the controls have hit a wide swath of VPN services. Another provider, Astrill, informed its users that the controls have started hitting iPhone access to services such as Gmail this year.

Read more: http://tech.thaivisa.com/china-blocks-vpn-new-censorship-crackdown/3203/

[Paulc01]

Somewhere, Mao is smiling through the flames.

[Publicus]

Each January the CCP Boyz in Beijing publish their new reduced GDP growth figures and each January the Boyz crack down more with their already severe internet and media censorship because each year protests and demonstrations by the people of the People's Republic become more and bigger.

Social media have not been shut down but now your IP has your name too which means you try to organize a protest and both your IP and now you are going to disappear. The disappear part is the new twist to the new year's new expanded old and decrepit censorship.

While Western governments publish their GDP data later in H1, the CCP Boyz have published all of theirs already (Wednesday ), and they don't want any PRChinese talking about it and even less doing anything about it.

Slowest growth in 24 years and even much slower crawling along this year.

The best VPN providers based in the US continue to do fine as their technology far outstrips the CCP's censorship apparatus and technology. VPN providers that fly by night have crashed or are crashing.

Blocked in China: Google Search and now Google GMail, Yahoo everything, Facebook, Twitter, NYT, Bloomberg, CNN, BBC, Netflix, HBO, ABC, anything from South Korea and India, not to mention Japan...if it's any fun, news or entertainment, it's blocked in the PRChina.

The Great Firewall of China.

Edited January 23, 2015 by Publicus

[ravip]

Some countries block, while others evesdrop?

I wonder what is best?

[Publicus]

Some countries do both and steal a lot besides.

[copa8]

Some countries do both and steal a lot besides.

Hate those f**king Nigerians and their email scams!

[EyesWideOpen]

Guess VPN blocking is the future of Thailand as well, since China

and Thailand are new best friends now...

[Steely Dan]

Guess VPN blocking is the future of Thailand as well, since China

and Thailand are new best friends now...

Indeed, I'm getting sick of that green government webpage telling you the page you requested was blocked, and that's when trying to access the Daily Mail.

[EyesWideOpen]

Guess VPN blocking is the future of Thailand as well, since China

and Thailand are new best friends now...

Indeed, I'm getting sick of that green government webpage telling you the page you requested was blocked, and that's when trying to access the Daily Mail.

Yeah that blocking of the Daily Mail was / is pretty absurd. Guess they ran a story

that the junta did not like, so now is permanently blocked. There are plenty of

stories on Facebook the junta certainly would not like, how come they do not

block them ? Oh wait, guess there would be an instant revolution if they did that...

[hawkeye76]

I thought this was a good time to bump up this story since now Thailand is trying to make a complete censuring firewall around itself..

The thing is, i read yesterday, that it will include VPN access.. That means thatwe will lose international news as well as our home country tv, as most of us are using vpn to access these..

What is your thoughts on this..

For me, i feel its scary as f u c k !

Edited September 25, 2015 by hawkeye76

[55Jay]

I thought this was a good time to bump up this story since now Thailand is trying to make a complete censuring firewall around itself..

The thing is, i read yesterday, that it will include VPN access.. That means thatwe will lose international news as well as our home country tv, as most of us are using vpn to access these..

What is your thoughts on this..

For me, i feel its scary as f u c k !

Scared of what, exactly?

[Publicus]

The tyrants of the world are seriously along in developing their own separate intranet to stop knowledge and information at their national border. An intranet that operates only inside the CCP China's border and which excludes the worldwideweb internet.

C|NET = China Internet

CWW = China Wide Web

China's national intranet

China’s ban on virtual private networks (VPN) prompts this ChinaFile conversation between global experts on the potential outfall from Beijing’s latest pullback on citizens’ online access. According to award-winning journalist George Chen: “These days, the government is keen to regulate everything it hates and promote everything it likes with new legislation or renewed enforcement. That’s what the rule of law Chinese-style is all about.”

http://journal.probeinternational.org/2015/02/02/is-chinas-internet-becoming-an-intranet/

Beijing Rewrites Internet Sovereignty Along Territorial Lines

Looking ahead, expect Beijing to increasingly assert sovereignty over its cyberspace and to manage its slice of the Internet in ways that take their cue from how China manages its terrestrial space.

Applying this to the international order, it is not illogical to envisage a future in which the Westphalian notion of the bounded nation-state that underpins international collective security may be used to assert that borders are technological and ideational, and not merely physical delineators of political geography.

http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44338&cHash=1622a6ba07e8dfa6844d135dfaf073ad#.VgUp3_cdDuA

Two peas in a pod, Beijing and Bangkok. A closed pod.

[NOC]

Guess VPN blocking is the future of Thailand as well, since China

and Thailand are new best friends now...

Indeed, I'm getting sick of that green government webpage telling you the page you requested was blocked, and that's when trying to access the Daily Mail.

I keep waiting for someone to hack it and install some good Thai porno. That would be funny!